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CBP Really Doesn’t Want To Reveal What It Does to Americans’ Phones

From “reason.com” A judge ruled that the border agency has to give a clearer explanation for why it seized a traveler’s phone without a warrant.Customs and Border Protection (CBP) insists that it has the right to search Americans’ private data without a warrant when entering the country. But ordered to explain one of these searches

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War Department loans heat ray weapon to DHS

This article comes from “naturalnews.com” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has authorized the temporary transfer of a military-grade heat ray weapon to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – handing civilian border officials a non-lethal crowd-control system the Department of War (DoW) developed two decades ago but never used in combat, according to a September memo recently

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First Them, Then Us: America’s Shift from Police State to Prison State

This article was originally published by John W. Whitehead at The Rutherford Institution It has been republished with permission from the author. Please contact the author directly for republishing information. “If Trump can disappear them, he can disappear you.”—Robert Reich America, you got fooled. Again. For starters, the war on illegal immigration was never just

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Border Agents Search Phones Without Warrants. This Case Asks the Supreme Court if That’s Constitutional

From “reason.com” Federal appeals courts differ on whether the Fourth Amendment protects your cellphone at the border. A Texas lawyer is asking the Supreme Court to settle it.What started as a “narrow constitutional exception” now “threatens to swallow the protection it was meant only to qualify,” according to an amicus brief filed last week by

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GrapheneOS Wipe at Airport Leads to Federal Charge in Atlanta

From “reclaimthenet.org” Border search law, Fifth Amendment claims, and Cop City politics collide in an Atlanta federal court case. The Justice Department is asking a federal court in Atlanta to treat a man’s erasure of his own phone as destruction of property, in the first known US prosecution built on a phone’s duress password. Samuel

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Border Patrol Seized Her $40,000—Without Charging Her With a Crime

From “reason.com” “We created a monster,” says Brad Cates, who helped write civil forfeiture laws as director of the Justice Department’s Asset Forfeiture office. Did you know that in most of America, police can take your property, even if you did nothing wrong? They don’t have to charge you with a crime. They don’t have

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Justice Department Says Filming Immigration Raids Is ‘Domestic Terrorism’

From “reason.com” A leaked Justice Department memo directs federal prosecutors to press “domestic terrorism” charges against individuals who record immigration operations. After leaving the Chicago area in November, U.S. Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino made an unexpected return on December 16, along with several hundred federal agents and a film crew. Returning to the same aggressive tactics that

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Police State Bounty Hunters: The Rise of ICE’s Unconstitutional War on America

This article was originally published by John W. Whitehead at The Rutherford Institution It has been republished with permission from the author. Please contact the author directly for republishing information. “Brother, I am American. You are twisting my arm.”— Man shouts “I am American” while ICE agents detain him Masked gunmen. Tasers. Tear gas. Pepper

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